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This year, 725 people have been accepted to fill a class of 540. Berman said the admissions office is waiting until June to mail the rest of the acceptances. Depending on how many students accept Harvard's offer, Berman said he hopes to accept from 50 to 65 more
During the recent electoral campaign, Harold Wilson's Laborites got considerable political mileage from the charge that Tories had allowed land speculators to amass huge fortunes. Last week stories in two pro-Tory newspapers, the Daily Express and the tabloid Daily Mail, suggested that close associates of Wilson were speculators themselves. The papers also recounted various incidents in which the associates reportedly linked the new Prime Minister's name last year to a series of transactions that were to earn them a $1,860,000 profit on 95 acres of land that they had bought between...
...Prime Minister, who has long had an ingrained suspicion that the Tory press is out to get him, promptly issued writs of intent to sue both the Express and the Mail for libel. During a stormy debate in Parliament, he made an emotional defense of the land transaction referred to by the papers, even though his lawyers had earlier insisted he had no knowledge...
Hoffa seems to regard the whole unpleasantness of prison life as a personal affront, as an attack on his ego. He considers his conviction on jury-tampering and mail fraud charges the result of a vendetta. Firstly, "I say I am not guilty of the crimes I was charged with, but they used a vehicle of public relations to deny me a fair trial," Hoffa says. He believes Robert Kennedy was out to get him, and his ultimate conviction was the result of the government's single-minded desire to see him put away. And Hoffa is not entirely self...
...Items. That trend is not all bad for retailers. Mail-order sales of Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and other catalogue houses are surging as more energy-conscious shoppers let their fingers do the traveling. Some store chains report that their long-languishing downtown branches are jammed with customers unwilling to motor to far-flung suburban shopping centers. Department stores report strong sales of books, games, television sets and other aids to a quiet evening at home. Other hot items include furniture, household hardware, seeds and garden supplies, and backyard swimming pools. "People are paying more attention to their homes," explains...